Talk about job security...get this: James Langlois and James Hughes were both stationed at Cape Blanco Lighthouse for their entire career, which lasted forty-two years for Langlois and thirty-seven years for Hughes.
By the late 1890s, Keeper Hughes had two children and Langlois five. Fortunately, the second assistant keeper, who lived with the families in the station’s duplex, was single, but still the residence was becoming crowded. The inspector recommended the construction of an additional dwelling at the cape starting in 1897, but it took over ten years of requests before a one-and-a-half-story, frame dwelling was completed in 1910.
While in North Bend/Coos Bay area in Oregon, we visited the Shore Acres Park where there is a wonderful garden full of flowers, trees, shrubs and foliage. This time, the Dahlias were in full bloom. There were four "squares" of them in the gardens. Spectacular.
The yellow squares were filled with the Dahlias.
Let's let the flowers beauty speak for themselves....
They don't allow dogs in the park, so I carried Katie for a while before taking her for a long walk in the nearby forest. She couldn't wait to get down and do some sniffing.
A butterfly came and landed on one of the flowers and stuck around long enough for Kim to take some closeups.
Our camera has a close-up feature on it so we can get right up to the object, so I took some of those to show the amazing Dahlias. Notice how their petals are all unique.
Aren't they gorgeous !!??
These are good photos to show two of the four squares.
There were other greenery around but the stars were the Dahlias. They also have a fantastic viewpoint of the nearby cliffs with breaking waves but that's for another entry.
On our way up to the Oregon coast, we wanted to stop to see the giant Redwoods in Northern California. We've done this twice before and have never tired of gazing upwards at their majestic heights. So, after 240 miles of up/down twisty-turny, fast/slow, construction zones...we finally got to our destination: Ancient Redwoods RV Park.
These redwoods are over 200 feet tall and between 400 and 900 years old.
We usually go for strolls through the redwoods on marked trails. It's so peaceful and serene.
You can see how large this trunk base was in comparison to Kim and Katie in the foreground. It's massive !
At the Visitor's Center, the had a cut tree displayed that showed how old these trees typically are.
This cut was 70 feet above the ground and look how old it still is !
Katie liked to read the trail signs to keep us on the right path.
